Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call owner Jim Cegielski says he knew he’d get
some hate mail and angry calls when he decided to put a gay wedding
story on the front page of his Feb. 7 issue. “The majority of people in
Mississippi oppose gay marriage,” he tells me, “but we didn’t know the
reaction was going to be as vicious and hateful and as widespread as it
was.” (The story
was about two women — one with stage four brain cancer — getting
married. It was the first known gay wedding ceremony in Laurel.)